1These are the words which Moses spake unto all
Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over
against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth,
and Di-zahab. 2It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by
the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea. 3And it came
to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first
day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
according unto all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto
them; 4after he had smitten Sihon the king of the
Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt
in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. 5Beyond the Jordan, in the land
of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long
enough in this mountain: 7turn you, and take your
journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all
the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and
in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of
the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river
Euphrates. 8Behold, I have set the land before you: go
in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed
after them.

9And I spake unto you at that time, saying,
I am not able to bear you myself alone: 10Jehovah your
God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars
of heaven for multitude. 11Jehovah, the God of your
fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you,
as he hath promised you! 12How can I myself alone bear
your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13Take
you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your
tribes, and I will make them heads over you. 14And ye
answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for
us to do. 15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise
men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands,
and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of
tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 16And I
charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between
your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother,
and the sojourner that is with him. 17Ye shall not
respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great
alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment
is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto
me, and I will hear it. 18And I commanded you at that
time all the things which ye should do.

19And we
journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible
wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the
Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to
Kadesh-barnea. 20And I said unto you, Ye are come unto
the hill-country of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth unto
us. 21Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before
thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers,
hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed. 22And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men
before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word
again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which
we shall come. 23And the thing pleased me well; and I
took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe: 24and
they turned and went up into the hill-country, and came unto the
valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 25And they took of
the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us,
and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Jehovah
our God giveth unto us.

26Yet ye would not go up, but
rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God: 27and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us,
he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us
into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28Whither
are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying,
The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and
fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the
Anakim there. 29Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither
be afraid of them. 30Jehovah your God who goeth before
you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in
Egypt before your eyes, 31and in the wilderness, where
thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth
bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this
place. 32Yet in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah
your God, 33who went before you in the way, to seek you
out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by
what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.

34And
Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware,
saying, 35Surely there shall not one of these men of
this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto
your fathers, 36save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he
shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden
upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed Jehovah.
37Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying,
Thou also shalt not go in thither: 38Joshua the son of
Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage
thou him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your
children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they
shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall
possess it. 40But as for you, turn you, and take your
journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

41Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah,
we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God
commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and
were forward to go up into the hill-country. 42And
Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I
am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. 43So I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against
the commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into
the hill-country. 44And the Amorites, that dwelt in that
hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and
beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah. 45And ye
returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah hearkened not to your
voice, nor gave ear unto you. 46So ye abode in Kadesh
many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

2 Deuteronomy 2

1Then we turned, and took our journey into the
wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and
we compassed mount Seir many days. 2And Jehovah spake
unto me, saying, 3Ye have compassed this mountain long
enough: turn you northward. 4And command thou the
people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren
the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of
you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore; 5contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no,
not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have
given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 6Ye shall
purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also
buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. 7For
Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; he
hath known thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty
years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
8So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau,
that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from
Ezion-geber.

And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness
of Moab. 9And Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab,
neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his
land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of
Lot for a possession. 10(The Emim dwelt therein
aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
11these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the
Moabites call them Emim. 12The Horites also dwelt in
Seir aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they
destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel
did unto the land of his possession, which Jehovah gave unto them.)
13Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. And we
went over the brook Zered. 14And the days in which we
came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered,
were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of
war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto
them. 15Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them,
to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were
consumed.

16So it came to pass, when all the men of war
were consumed and dead from among the people, 17that
Jehovah spake unto me, saying, 18Thou art this day to
pass over Ar, the border of Moab: 19and when thou comest
nigh over against the children of Ammon, vex them not, nor contend
with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of
Ammon for a possession; because I have given it unto the children of
Lot for a possession. 20(That also is accounted a land
of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call
them Zamzummim, 21a people great, and many, and tall, as
the Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they
succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; 22as he did
for the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the
Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in
their stead even unto this day: 23and the Avvim, that
dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out
of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) 24Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the
Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in
battle. 25This day will I begin to put the dread of thee
and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole
heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be
in anguish because of thee.

26And I sent messengers out
of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words
of peace, saying, 27Let me pass through thy land: I will
go along by the highway, I will turn neither unto the right hand nor
to the left. 28Thou shalt sell me food for money, that I
may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me
pass through on my feet, 29as the children of Esau that
dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until
I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God
giveth us. 30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us
pass by him; for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his
heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as at this
day. 31And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun to
deliver up Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that
thou mayest inherit his land. 32Then Sihon came out
against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz. 33And Jehovah our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him,
and his sons, and all his people. 34And we took all his
cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city,
with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining: 35only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of
the cities which we had taken. 36From Aroer, which is on
the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in
the valley, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for us;
Jehovah our God delivered up all before us: 37only to
the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not near; all the side
of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and
wheresoever Jehovah our God forbade us.

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